About Joel Trammell
The job of Chief Executive is unlike any other leadership position, and it doesn’t come with a guidebook. A successful founder and CEO, author and CEO educator, Joel Trammell is on a mission to teach aspiring, new and current CEOs to bring confidence and excellence to their role of Chief Executive Officer.
Ventures
Texas CEO Magazine
Joel owns Texas CEO Magazine, a quarterly publication whose mission is to help CEOs across Texas grow their businesses and master the chief executive role.
NetQoS
NetQoS was founded by Joel and his wife, Dr. Cathy Fulton, in 1999. The company provided network performance management software to large enterprises and counted 17 of the Fortune 25 as customers.
Black Box Network Services
Joel began serving on the board of Black Box (NASDAQ:BBOX) in 2013. Black Box was a nearly $1 billion revenue company in the IT services and technology space.
Cache IQ
Joel co-founded Cache IQ in June 2010 and acquired the assets of a failed startup. With Joel as CEO the company re-engineered the product to provide an intelligent storage acceleration product to the market.
Austin Technology Council
In 2010 Joel was asked to be Chairman of the Austin Technology Council, an industry association of over 300 technology companies in the central Texas area.
Lone Rock Technology Group
Joel co-founded Lone Rock Technology Group in 2011 as a private equity firm focused on acquiring enterprise software companies.
The CEO Tightrope
No CEO can find a point of balance and then stand still – that’s not even possible on a tightrope. The expectation is that the business must always move forward.
The American CEO walks a tightrope daily…many times blindfold and without a net. The job of balancing the often-competing interests of a company’s constituents is so challenging that the average lifespan of a newly minted CEO is around five years. Why is it that individuals who have been wildly successful at every other position in their career often fail when they get to the CEO chair?
Blog
10 Steps to Become a Great U.S. President
These 10 simple actions would make the country’s chief executive more effective and trustworthy. The president of the United States…
Bezos and Scott Stepping Down as CEOs: Why Now?
Jeff Bezos and Kendra Scott announced this week that they are stepping down as CEOs to become Executive Chairmen* of…
4 Traits of the Most Talented Job Candidates
Traits to look for when you need to find talent I recently wrote that hiring “oddballs” can give your company…
Press
The Challenges of Going from Founder to CEO
Not every founder is meant to be the CEO of their company. Going from founder to CEO takes new skillsets,…
CEO Joel Trammell Had Trouble Hiring a VP of Marketing, Again and Again
In this episode with Mark Graban, Joel shares his “favorite mistake” story about having trouble, multiple times, finding the right…
Walking the Tightrope: How to Best Partner with CEOs
On this week’s episode of Shifting the Law, listen as the Johnny and Joel discuss the importance of CEO leadership…
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